OROVILLE — Oroville High School student Devin Crumpler played a police officer Thursday morning, talking a guy into putting down a knife.
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The highways of Miami and Fort Lauderdale may be jammed with gas-guzzling SUVs, but when it comes to global-warming emissions, South Florida is still greener than the state’s other big metropolitan areas.
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Larry E. Rivers, president of Fort Valley State University, envisions a future where his school’s biotechnology majors and professors will assist in the development of alternative fuels using various vegetables.
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A former University High School tennis coach faces up to four years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to felony attempted escape and violating his probation.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bill Smith called his manager with a question on Thursday: How would you feel about adding Craig Breslow to your bullpen.
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By Amanda Gardner , HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) — Dried tomatoes, anyone? A study in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research …
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Crate & Barrel plans to double its space in Lincoln County Industrial Park with a 400,000-square-foot “green” distribution center. Officials of the furniture and home products chain said Thursday that they expect to open the building — which can be expanded to 800,000 square feet — in June 2009 creating 70 new jobs initially. John Ling, vice president of supply chain management & logistics, …
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It’s not going to make the big beasts lurking in canals and lakes in South Florida and South Carolina seem any nicer, but new research suggests a little alligator might be good for human health. Scientists in Louisiana recently found the blood of the American alligator such a potent killer of bacteria, including some resistant to existing antibiotics, that they are hoping to use it to develop …
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Crate & Barrel plans to double its space in Lincoln County Industrial Park with a 400,000-square-foot “green” distribution center. Officials of the furniture and home products chain said Thursday that they expect to open the building – which can be expanded to 800,000 square feet – in June 2009, creating 70 new jobs initially. John Ling, vice president of supply chain management and …
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A new analysis of the Martian rock that gave hints of water on the Red Planet — and, therefore, optimism about the prospect of life — now suggests the water was more likely a thick brine, far too salty to support life as we know it.
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Researchers have recently elucidated the structure and function of an enzyme which is involved in decorating antibiotics with sugar molecules. Many antibiotics have different carbohydrate molecules attached to them which can help the antibiotic to be taken up by the target organism or overcome resistance. By manipulating the sugar, it may be possible to restore usefulness in antibiotics to which …
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It’s been years since we have bought other people’s biodiesel. But last week we bought 250 gallons of street legal biodiesel from the Coop. Today we bought a thousand gallons more from another small scale producer.
And it feels good.
Industrial’s plant has been pegged to biodiesel derived from chicken fat which ships to faraway lands. While it is sustainable biodiesel at our plant gate, at some point that sticker must surely be removed. And no one is sure what that point is. Could be the Georgia state line? Rotterdam perhaps? At some point, the guy filling up in Seoul South Korea on our fuel can’t really call himself “green.”
And when it became obvious to us that the lion’s share of our production was to be chicken derived and headed to far away places, we went to work on another idea which became known on project as our “Satellite Strategy.”
I think the idea was largely inspired by the Coop. They transformed themselves from backyard brewers to making street legal fuel last year. The fuel for the Tami Tank used to come from Industrial, but in the middle of last winter that all changed, and the tank started being supplied by the Coop.
And along the way we spotted many advantages: The Coop was on wvo which they collected, giving them superior feedstock costs, and superior cold flow performance, and a more reliable supply.
Suddenly there was a “satellite” making onspec, saleable fuel, and it was great to behold. The reason I think of it as a satellite is that it does have a gravitational connection to Industrial-which could be the mother ship. Industrial helped with reactor and process technology, and lab work, and operating procedures, and the Coop wedged itself into a brand new onspec paradigm.
And based on their lead, Industrial launched into a full scale satellite strategy that could backstop the Community Trail. We are currently working on eight different biodiesel production plants-many of which will be able to supply wvo derived, street legal fuel to the trail.
The next one to come online with be in Durham. Carolina Biodiesel will be able to stop buying fuel from Industrial and other suppliers, and will start making fuel for their own three locations.
It appears the Coop may be able to take over the Pittsboro location. The plant in Randolph County might be able to take over Burlington-or perhaps the folks at Burlington Biodiesel would like a shot at it.
If Industrial is to stay wedded to chicken, wringing out every last drop for consumers on the other side of the globe, it is the satellites that may be able to step in to fill the void.
Which is very exciting. How do you stay loyal to the mission of creating local fuel from local resources? Become the mother ship. Launch satellites.
When this idea first emerged we thought it would be real-estate developers who would want small-scale super sexy biodiesel incorporated into their urban renewal plans. And we were wrong about that. By the time the 2008 NBB conference came along we thought it would be the biodiesel coops everywhere who would climb on board and we pitched the idea to anyone who would listen. And we were wrong again.
But now it appears to be working.
We have a trickle of local-wvo derived fuel finding its way back onto the Trail. And the trickle is growing. There is a very real likelihood that all eight of our locations will be filled with local wvo-derived fuel by the fall.
When the cold weather comes.
Instead of coming from a solitary plant in Pittsboro, it will come from multiple smaller scale operations. Imagine. A micro-nodal fueling paradigm from local resources. We are only six years in, and it is not here yet, but the prospects of it happening look very good indeed.
It’s so nice to be distributing other people’s fuel again…
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PROMOTERS of a bio-energy plant which would be located close to champion trainer Aidan O’Brien’s south Tipperary base will have to wait until late July for a planning decision.
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The United Nations said food prices are being pushed higher by weather-related crop shortages and high demand for biofuels.A report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, released ahead of the upcoming conference on World Food Security in Rome, said urgent measures are needed to boost agricultural production and protect the poor from being hurt by high food prices.The current dramatic …
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Posted: Today at 3:24 p.m. Research Triangle Park, N.C. — Norris Tolson, chief executive officer of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, has been elected to the board of directors for the North Carolina Biosciences Organization (NCBIO).
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